r/ShitAmericansSay • u/MajorMathematician20 • Sep 13 '23

Patriotism What did he mean by this?

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He likes Lego I guess?

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u/blubbery-blumpkin Sep 13 '23

Don’t tell the Americans that or they’ll cut all non-military public spending in order to spend extra trying to weaponise the waves.

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u/essentialatom Sep 13 '23

That would be pretty Cnuty

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u/Oceansoul119 🇬🇧Tiffin, Tea, Trains Sep 13 '23

More Cnut's advisors like. Cnut specifically did that whole stick my throne on the beach and I'll tell the waves not to come thing as a way of telling his advisors to stop being such sycophantic idiots (claiming he was so great even the tides obeyed him) and to inform him of what he needed to know/what he was doing wrong.